From Beirut, Rania Khalek reports on the chaos as Israel orders hundreds of thousands from the southern suburbs to evacuate, saying, “Israel is trying to empty out huge portions of Lebanon like never before.” As Israel intensifies its war on Iran, Lebanon faces escalating bombings, mass displacement, and the looming threat of invasion. “Israel is applying its ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Iran, South Lebanon – they are totally unleashed with no red lines,” says Rania.
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters day two, with bombs falling across the Middle East.
After assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Washington and Tel Aviv push for rapid regime change, but Iran is escalating across every GCC country hosting U.S. forces. Iran, Tel Aviv, and the Gulf states are all taking unprecedented hits.
Join Rania Khalek and special guests for urgent analysis on the latest developments, strategy, and the dangerous road ahead.
Special Guests:
–Ali Abunimah, Co-founder and Director of Electronic Intifada
–Negar Mortazavi, Senior Fellow at Center for International Policy and host of the Iran podcast
–Séamus Malekafzali, Journalist and co-host of the Turbulence podcast
–Nathan Thompson, Senior policy adviser at Just Foreign Policy
We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestine, and the end of international law,” unpacks how recent U.S. aggression from Venezuela to Gaza signals a dangerous unraveling of the post-World War II legal order.
The U.S. military raid on Venezuela on January 3 shocked the world. On Dispatches, Rania Khalek is joined by Jorge Arreaza, Venezuela’s former foreign minister, to explain what actually happened and to respond directly to U.S. media narratives about “betrayal,” regime change, and control.
As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ceasefires, one thing has become clear: this isn’t just about Palestine. It’s about Western supremacy, empire, and the racism that underpins them both.
To discuss this, Rania Khalek is joined by Dr. Ghada Karmi — academic, physician, and Nakba survivor — who has written powerfully about how Western imperialism, Arab complicity, and Zionism’s own contradictions have led us here. Dr. Karmi is a former research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and author of many books including “One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel.”
She has spent her life exposing the deeper roots of this catastrophe: the colonial mindset that made Palestine disposable, the Western guilt that turned Jewish suffering into Palestinian punishment, and the moral rot that allows genocide to be broadcast live without consequence.
On September 17, 2024, pagers began exploding across Lebanon and Syria. The next day, it was walkie-talkies. Israel’s Mossad had booby-trapped communication devices and detonated them remotely, killing 37 people and injuring nearly 3,000, including children.
In this special documentary report, journalist Rania Khalek goes inside the attack, tracing the human toll of one of Israel’s most chilling operations to date. Through interviews with survivors, families, and legal experts, the Khalek exposes the international complicity that made it possible, and the resilience of those who lived through it. This is the untold story of the pager attack.
Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham joins the show to discuss Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the critical role of public figures in condemning it, and how the Western media enables the violence. A longtime advocate for Palestine, Cunningham reflects on the roots of his activism in an industry where speaking out often invites backlash and blacklisting. “I need to be able to look myself in the mirror,” he says. He also calls out celebrities who stay silent on Gaza: “I’m astonished at the cowardice of people who won’t come forward. If you have a platform, you’re obligated to use it– especially where you see injustice.”
Macklemore, musician and Executive Producer of the new documentary The Encampments, joins the show to discuss the upcoming film. It follows activists Mahmoud Khalil and Grant Miner as they organized the Columbia student encampment for Gaza—an action that sparked an international student movement against Israel’s genocide nearly a year ago.
In theaters now, visit the-encampments.com for showtimes and to book your tickets.
Trump’s return isn’t just chaos, it’s a calculated strategy. While liberals dismiss him, Trump understands raw economic power in a way centrists fail to grasp. What is his master plan, and how could it backfire?
Meanwhile, Musk & other billionaires are the new ruling class. As capitalism dies, we enter technofeudalism, where corporate overlords control entire infrastructures of power. And in Europe, elites literally cried over the U.S. pivoting away. Does Europe have any real sovereignty left? Yanis Varoufakis joins Rania Khalek to break it all down.
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